Killaun

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaun, from 65 m² to 940,598 m² (94.06 ha, 232.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission for a replacement dwelling house, new domestic garage, upgrades to the existing site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks at Ballinree, Killyon, Birr, Co. Offaly. Permission is also being sought for a change of use of the existing dwelling into agricultural use.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560444

• 19 Sept 2025N/a

  replacement dwelling house, new domestic garage, upgrades to the existing site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks at Ballinree, Killyon, Birr, Co. Offaly. Permission is also being sought for a change of use of the existing dwelling into agricultural use.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560431

• 16 Aug 2017Conditional

  AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF MILK SILO AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17302

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killaun.

Recorded monuments

• OF035-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W facing slope of a low hillock in undulating countryside. Circular area (diam 44m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 1.5m; int. H 0.5m) reduced in places to a scarp with slight traces of an external fosse with no evidence of an entrance feature. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killaun.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1699 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Killaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Killaun · An Coilleán

Area

3,396,060 m² (339.61 ha, 839.18 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Killyon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killyon electoral division: 276 people in 95 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Ballywilliam, Bogderries, Clonbeale More, Clonbrone, Clonbrone, Clonoghil Lower, Coole, Fortel, Lisheen

Placenames

Killaun on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.